Posted on 05/02/2024 8:56:47 PM PDT by RandFan
Former Conservative Prime Minister Boris Johnson was turned away from his local polling station after forgetting to bring acceptable photo ID.
As first reported by Sky News, he returned later with the necessary ID and was able to vote.
He cast his ballot in South Oxfordshire, where voters are choosing a police and crime commissioner.
New rules requiring photo ID to vote were introduced by Mr Johnson's government in the Elections Act 2022.
The change was rolled out last year, with local elections in May 2023 the first time voters needed to show ID.
According to the Electoral Commission, about 14,000 people were unable to vote in last year's local elections in England as a result of the new rules.
There are 22 acceptable forms of ID, including passports, driving licences, older or Disabled Person's bus passes and Oyster 60+ cards.
People who are registered to vote can also apply for a free document known as a Voter Authority Certificate.
The government has also said it intends to make veterans' ID cards a valid form of voter identification after some former service personnel were turned away from polling stations.
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How does one forget his ID?
Clever old fox is Boris!
Why do you keep trying to make an issue of that? it’s not in the least unusual.There are still 8 months before the last date when an election can be held. It’s entirely normal for the sitting PM - especially one with a weak position as at present - to keep the opposition guessing at this stage in the cycle.
It's not Britain anymore.
Imagine that! Fair and effective voter ID regulations actually being enforced in Great Britain.
It’s up to the PM when he calls it
In fact, they had a “Fixed date Parliament Act” but I think Boris got rid of it after just a few years and one parliament
People prefer it this way. He has to call it within 5 years of the last one.
Yes, The fixed date wasn’t very popular so they got rid of it!
It doesn’t work in a non-presidential system. It’s strange but people prefer it the way it is where PM can call it when he wants
Didn’t use to be that way, did it...
https://www.instituteforgovernment.org.uk/explainer/calling-general-election
“...Between 2011 and 2022 prime ministers would have had to pass a vote in the House of Commons to call an early election under the Fixed-term Parliaments Act (FTPA) 2011. This has now been repealed and the Dissolution and Calling of Parliament Act (DaCoP) 2022 which has returned the ability to call elections to Royal Prerogative. This is how elections were called before 2011...”
See my reply #29.
BTW, you lot are in the same mess we are.
But we in the US have two advantages...
1) We’re not in denial anymore.
2) We’ve got Trump standing between us and our Deep State.
The Fixed Term Parliaments Act, to which you refer, was a short-term political fix by David Cameron. It had all sorts of holes in it from the outset, and its repeal was inevitable sooner or later. We’re now back to the traditional system, in place for centuries, in which the election date is in the gift of the Prime Minister as long as he can command a Parliamentary majority, and no Parliament can last more than 5 years.
What I don’t understand is the reason for your repeated references to this. Are you saying that repealing the Fixed Term Parliaments Act was a bad thing? If so, why?
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